QUI QUOTE Reminders about Customer Service and Leadership

English writer Samuel Johnson said, “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed”. So I encourage you to remind yourself, your customer CARE TEAM, and your colleagues every day about each one of these QUI QUOTE reminders published in 2023 and the QUI QUOTES published today.

25 QUI QUOTE Reminders about Customers and Customer Service.

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15 QUI QUOTE Reminders about Leadership and Employee Engagement.

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/qui-quotes-reminders-leadership-employee-engagement-bill-quiseng-vudxc/

ASSETS

Your most important assets are not your customers and your people. It’s how your customers and your people feel about you and your company.

CEO OF THE MOMENT

To a complaining customer, you are not a representative of the company. You ARE the company. So, own it. Be the CEO of the moment. Take it personally. Take it professionally. Take it responsibly. Just don’t take it at home.

COMMON SENSE

Delivering GREAT customer service is business common sense. Your job is to make it common practice.

COMPLAINT?

A customer complaint is a gift. Take the perspective that customers complain because they want to help your business. Otherwise, they would walk away, saying nothing, with no intention of ever returning.

CONDUIT

Your relationship with your customers, not their purchase of your product, is the conduit where true value flows.

CSAT CX METRICS

Your customers don't care about your NPS, CSAT, or CX metrics. They only care about theirs: One to One. Human to Human. Heart to Heart. The value to your customers is in their personal interactions, not your "cash or credit" business transactions. To earn customer loyalty, don't get inside their heads. Get inside their hearts. Create an emotional connection. Think RELATIONSHIPS or Go Broke. Literally.

CUSTOMER

A customer is a person. Not a dollar, Not a satisfaction score. Not an online review. Customers are people. CARE BIG for them.

CUSTOMERS BOUGHT

You know you have customer CARE right when your customers don’t tell others what they bought. They tell others who they bought it from.

DISSATISFY ME

No customer, intent on paying, has ever entered your store to loudly proclaim, “Here I am. Dissatisfy me now!”

No employee, intent on working, has ever started their first day by loudly proclaiming, “Here I am. Dissatisfy me now.” If all you do is lead with top-down, one-way, communication, your employees will soon be disillusioned and disengaged, only working because they HAVE TO. But if you have a servant leadership mindset to CARE for your employees, your people will feel respected, appreciated, and valued. They will loyally return, be more productive, and rave to others on social media.

EXPERIENCE TRUMPS

Your customer’s negative experience of your service trumps your advertising every time.

EXPLANATION EXCUSE

Listen to their complaints with the intent to take action, not to explain. To a customer, when something is wrong, your explanation is an excuse. Customers want action, not excuses.

FINE

When you ask customers “How is everything?” and they respond, “Fine,” just know you “Failed In Nailing Expectations.”

HABIT

If you want your people to make it a habit to deliver outstanding customer CARE, you have to make it a habit to recognize them when they do.

INNOVATION

We need to future-proof the customer experience. We analyze the journey to ask, “What are the potential dissatisfiers and how can we remove them?”, and when we ask and take action, a negative customer experience has turned into a neutral one. But that’s not good enough. Satisfied customers feel their experience is good, not better, just average. Nobody raves about average. And satisfied customers will leave when they find an experience that is better or a less expensive price.

So don’t serve to satisfy customers. Don’t treat customers as they would have expected. Don’t treat them as they want to be treated. And don’t treat them as YOU want to be treated. Instead, treat them a little better than they want to be treated. Serve to WOW them.

Future-proof the customer experience. In addition to asking "What happened?" to your people answering customer complaints, ask them "What if?" Exceeding the expectations of current customer needs and innovating future potential customer wants will maximize the ROI of CX. So, always be asking, “What happened?" and “What if?" Always be innovating. And always be GREAT out there!

KEEP FIND

Work as hard to keep customers as much as you do to find them.

MARKETING

Marketing is not your advertising online to customers. It’s your customers raving to others on social media about your customer CARE. To them, you’re not just good. You are GREAT out there!

METRICS

Your customers don’t care about your NPS, CSAT, or CX metrics. They only care about theirs: One to One. Human to Human. Heart to Heart.

NOBODY

Nobody raves about a company that meets customer expectations.

Nobody raves about average.

OVERPROMISE

Overpromise and underdeliver and you’re sure to lose a customer’s trust. Don’t make it right and you’re sure to lose a customer.

PERCEPTION

Your customer’s perception of your customer service trumps your advertising

PERFECT PRACTICE

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. But you CAN learn something by being perfect ... for your customers. When it comes to business, the customer's value in their experience is just "perfect." Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect ... for your customers.

PERSPECTIVE

Take the perspective that the customer complains because he wants to help your business. Otherwise, he simply would have left, saying nothing, intent on never coming back.

POLICY

If you’re making frequent policy exceptions, then customer perception does not match company promises. It’s poor policy. Fix it.

PRICE VALUE

When customers complain, they don’t complain about the price. They complain about the value of their experience for the price that you’re asking them to pay. On the flipside, customers will pay for their best experience, no matter the price.

RELATIONSHIP?

The value to your customers is in their personal interactions, not your “cash or credit” sales transactions.?

Your relationship with your customers, not their purchase of your product, is the conduit where true customer experience value flows.

SERVE WOW CARE

Don’t serve to satisfy customers.

Don’t treat customers as they expect to be treated. And don’t treat them as you want to be treated. Instead, treat them a little better than they want to be treated. Serve to WOW them. Serve to CARE.

COMMUNICATE with each customer with a smile, eye contact, and polite interaction. Inform each customer transparently and interactively of the product’s or service’s function, liabilities, and advantages to them.

ACKNOWLEDGE each customer’s presence and value to you and your company.

RESPOND promptly and empathetically to each customer’s questions, concerns, and complaints.

ENRICH the experiences and, ultimately, the lives of every customer.

When you CARE, each customer is WOWED and happy, intent on returning repeatedly, spending more money, and raving to others on social media.

VALUE

As their leader, the value to your people is in their personal interactions with you, not your business transactions with them.

VENT

Listen and allow complaining customers to vent. Angry or frustrated customers generally will not listen or accept your apology until they have an opportunity to voice their frustrations.

WORLD’S BEST

The “World’s Best” customer experience is not as the world sees it. The “World’s Best” Is how one customer FEELS it.

Every morning, when you prepare yourself or your customer CARE people to engage and WOW your customers, I encourage you to remind yourself or your customer CARE people during your daily briefing by reciting one of your favorite QUI QUOTES and, in the end, saying, "Don’t be just good. Be GREAT out there!"

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